Gästekommentare Hotel Barcelona Universal

Hallo nach Barcelona,

ja, wir haben uns super wohl gefühlt. Alleine das Zimmer mit der Terrasse und dieser Ausblick über Barcelona, einfach nur klasse.
Ein dickes Lob gilt dem gesamten Personal, welches super freundlich, hilfsbereit und sehr aufmerksam ist.
Also, wir kommen wieder zu Euch, hoffentlich schon bald.

Liebe Grüsse aus dem kalten Deutschland
Marion Dohmen und Jörg Trzeciak

:: Hotel Barcelona Universal ::

Barcelona Opportunity Week

The second edition of the Barcelona Opportunity Week, until 5 February, is seeing 20% more restaurants, hotels, markets, florists’ and cultural venues joining in and offering discounts. This year’s initiative includes offers on flights to visit the city, although a good many of the discounts are aimed at Barcelona’s own residents.

Michelin-starred restaurants with 35-euro menus, bouquets of flowers for 11 euros, half-price theatre tickets and special rates at hotels are just some of the offers in Barcelona Opportunity Week.

Last year more than 15.000 people took part in this week of discounts, there were 600 overnight stays and over 20.000 euros were collected through charity contributions.

Barcelona Fashion Week

The inauguration of the “Hall of Fame“, an exhibition of photographs from Vanity Fair on Passeig de Gràcia, kicks of this year’s Barcelona Fashion Week, which features even more activities than before. Besides, Avinguda Maria Cristina has a display of work by Manuel Outumuro, an industry expert, for Marie Claire.

Several new initiatives are joining the urban fashion show, The Brandery, which opens on 27 January, the 080 Barcelona Fashion catwalk, which this year will be in the Gothic setting of the Plaça del Rei, and the pioneering ModaFad catwalk, dedicated to up-and-coming designers.

One of the new events this year is BeCo, the first ethical fashion platform in Spain, which aims to set up and promote sustainable projects in the fashion industry. This new platform, which champions issues like workers’ rights and products used to manufacture fashion goods.

Although it won’t be taking place until 5 and 6 February, the new show Little Barcelona also forms part of Fashion Week. This new event has an international profile and will bring together 50 brands drawn from the children’s fashion industry, as well as from related areas like the decoration and furniture sectors.

The 080 Barcelona Fashion catwalk, from 25-28 January, will showcase the work of 25 brands and designers, including Desigual, taking part for the first time. TCN will raise the curtain on 080, for which the special guest this year is Pierre Cardin, one of contemporary fashion’s true greats.

The Brandery Catwalk, which is circular, allows visitors to see the exhibitors’ designs in movement. Custo, Replay and Superdry are just three of the 40 brands parading there.

Fangoria, The Zombie Kids, 2manydjs and Dorian concerts are set to perform at the trade fair site and tickets to their performances include entry to the fair the same afternoon.

Hotel Granvía of Barcelona opens New Website

The Granvia Hotel, located in the Eixample district and one of the best locations of Barcelona’s: Passeig de Gràcia, Gran Via and Plaza Catalunya, just launched its new website.

Built in the 19th century as a bourgeois palace, the hotel first opened its doors to guests in 1935. The Granvia Hotel offers 53 rooms, all unique, some are triple and family rooms, its still feature original furnishings and décor, which lend it elegance, class and distinction that set it apart from other hotels in Barcelona.

Developed in collaboration with IMS TravelClick, the new website of Hotel Granvía offers you iStay2.0 booking engine, allowing you to conveniently make your reservation online with immediate confirmation of price and availability.

30th edition of the Barcelona International Comic Fair

From 3 to 6 May 2012, the 30th edition of the Barcelona International Comic Fair will be turning the spotlight on robots (dedicating its main exhibition): Mazinger Z, the Transformers, Arale from Dr Slump, Astroboy… The list of comic robot heroes goes on and on.

And featuring one of the big names in the world of comics & robots: Gô Nagai, the creator of Mazinger Z, the legendary robot with rocket fists is also celebrating his birthday: his 40th.

Also coming are Milo Manara, one of the great masters of European comics; Paul Cornell, the scriptwriter for the Doctor Who series; Scott Snyder, the scriptwriter for the new Batman series and The Swamp Thing; Guy Delisle, the author of Pyongyang and Burma Chronicles; Rags Morales, an illustrator for the re-launched Action Comics, and Sergio Aragonés, an illustrator for MAD magazine.

Robots in their ink (Robots en la seva tinta) is the title of the Fair’s robotics exhibition. The exhibition, which aims both to entertain and to inform, will explore the relationship between robots and comics, cinema and literature.

The exhibition will have a section devoted to the robots from the Star Wars universe, entitled, Droids from the Galaxies (Droides de les galàxies) as well as educational areas and an activities programme that include robotics workshops and classes on how to draw robots.

Ah, and for those of you who will turn 30 this year (born in 1982) you’ll have free entry. Many happy returns!

Hotel Soho Barcelona: Draw a Complimentary Stay!

As we announced yesterday, we have a new draw available. On this occasion, the winners will enjoy a free stay at the Hotel Soho Barcelona. Located in the Eixample’s neighborhood of Barcelona, ​this is a modern and vanguardist hotel design.

The draw will take place from all the comments received from today until March 31, 2012.

The prize consists of:

• A two nights stay in at Hotel Soho Barcelona with breakfast included.
• Bottle of Cava.
• To be used between: from April 01 to June 30, 2012 (Subject to Availability).
• No changes can be made once the reservation has been confirmed.
• The prize can not be used in conjunction with other item or goods.
• The prize can not be exchanged for any other item or goods.
• The prize is personal and non-transferable.

Only people who have already stayed in one of our nine hotels and post a review on the blog are eligible for the prize. Winners will be advised via e-mail and their name and surname will be published on the blog.

If you have any queries, please send a message to the following address: newsletter@nnhotels.com

Good luck to all participants!

The First Winner of 2012… Free Stay in Barcelona!

The first winner of the year, 2012… We have raffled our complimentary stay in Barcelona between all the comments posted by our clients. And the winner of a complimentary stay at the Hotel Jazz Barcelona, only 2 minutes walking from Plaza Catalunya…

Username Doris for her experience in Barcelona last November 2011 during her stay at Hotel Granvía of Barcelona.

But we still have more prizes for you… Next drawing will be announced tomorrow!!

Claude Cahun at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge

Lucy Schwob used the pseudonym Claude Cahun during her multidisciplinary artistic career. She was a writer, a woman of theatre and a photographer, and for years unjustly forgotten about until the 1980s when two exhibitions on her were held in France.

This exhibition has organized by Jeu de Paume, París, and coproduced with La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, and The Art Institute of Chicago. The purpose for the exhibition Claude Cahun is to bring the image of this artist up to date and highlight her continued validity with regard to contemporary practices and discourses.

Nonetheless, this exercise is based, not only on pointing to contemporary works, artists or discourses that invite one to think of Cahun as a precedent, but also on exploring the successive ways in which the critical frames through which “her” work has been studied have been updated themselves. These revivals and evaluations of Cahun from different perspectives have thrown light on and complemented the many different facets of the artist’s creative practice.

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge -> la Rambla, 99 – Ciutat Vella
Dates: From 28/10/2011 to 05/02/2012 | Free entrance

50th anniversary of the debut of Montserrat Caballe at Gran Teatre del Liceu

Montserrat Caballé made her debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and in Spain on Monday 7 January 1962, in Richard Strauss’ Arabella.

This concert celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Liceu debut of the great soprano from Barcelona. Her emotional and professional relationship with the theatre was soon consolidated by her performances as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly. These were the first steps in a long and close partnership that has included many of her most seminal interpretations: Norma, Roberto Devereux, Maria  Stuarda, Lucrezia Borgia, Il Pirata, Aida, Un ballo in maschera, I vespri sicilianni, and others. The Liceu awarded her its Gold Medal in 1966 and now rounds off this sincere tribute with an exhibition in the Foyer recalling the most significant and memorable events in an exceptional joint biography.

Hotel 1898, located in Las Ramblas, is the nearest hotel to Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Gran Teatre del Liceu -> La Rambla, 51 | Ciutat Vella

Barcelona Children’s Festival

The Children’s Festival has been entertaining kids since 1963. This year is no exception, with the festival boasting more than one hundred and fifty different activities of all kinds at the Montjuïc exhibition venue.

One of the main features this year is sport, with a recreation of the Olympic Stadium and the presence of some of Barça‘s footballers. Some of the other attractions include go-karts, ponies, traditional games, video games, concerts, magic shows and a visit from some of the Sesame Street characters from Port Aventura.

Take part in this unforgettable experience; in the numerous sporting, recreational and educational activities being organized at the Children’s Festival, a fabulous fiesta where fun is guaranteed. The best way to teach values ​​such as creativity, solidarity, respect for diversity and the environment. It also promotes the sport and the Mediterranean food. Here you can participate in interactive science activities, recycling or responsible consumption, road safety circuits, workshops on how to care for pets, crafts and drawing competitions.

You can find more information at Festival Website.

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